The Critics
Revolution in the air
Andrea Chénier, Royal Opera House
Bedlam bingo
Sex, death, sado-masochism and blasphemy in a heady cocktail
This was a bad start to the week
More work for the BBC pronunciation unit
Sein oder Nichtsein
What a pairing Hüller and Fiennes would make
Reboot camp
In the desperate hunt for stories, adaptations are now all-dominant
Finnish on a high note
Now, how the Helsinki has this happened?
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
Walter’s Arctic Circle is a winner
Welcome to a kaleidoscopic showcase of topical dramas in vivid settings
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
